Blog Tag - Relationships

Confessing Your Love on Qixi? Choose Your Lines Wisely
As you may have heard, it's that lovey-dovey time of year again. Yes, I am talking about Qixi, the Chinese Valentine’s Day. Besides treating your...
Stuck at the Conversation with Chinese? Try These Starters to Break the Ice
Striking up a conversation with a complete stranger can be awkward, nerve-wracking, and especially challenging when it's with someone who doesn't...
Beijing Lights: "There is No Insurance for Marriage"
This post is part of an ongoing series by the Spittoon Collective that aims to share some of the voices that make up Beijing’s 21.7 million humans....
DP The Best Spring Date Ideas in Beijing
It’s getting warmer, and love is in the air. All you’ve got to do is hope that your partner doesn’t read this blog, or else they’ll know it wasn’t...
Living in Sin? No Sweat, It's No Longer a Crime
Living in sin? Shacking up with a laowai without them all-important marriage papers? Girlfriend extorting you to get married to "make her honest"?...
The Lighter Side of China: Marital Advice for Mixed Marriages
The Lighter Side of China began as a series of blogs written by author Scott Kronick that chronicled the experiences of living in China as an expat...
Classified of the Week: African American Seeking Fat Chinese Woman
Every day The Beijinger gets a swarm of interesting, appropriate (and not-so-appropriate), and sometimes just downright weird classified ads from...
British Expat Details Dating Doldrums in Daily Mail Article
Ladies, if you're looking to date in Beijing, localize your operations – at least according to the advice of one British expatriate, published...
Chinese-Foreigner Dating: One Woman's Perspective
Jocelyn Eikenburg hails from Ohio and met her Chinese husband in Hangzhou. For the past few years she's been blogging on Speaking of China – where...
Countdown! Our Biggest Blogs – #10
To celebrate the upcoming anniversary of the Beijinger magazine, we're taking a look back at the 11 most-read posts in the history of TheBeijinger...
How Much Is Your Girlfriend Worth? A New Chinese Scoring System Tells You
A very helpful Chinese netizen has posted a rubric online that assigns value to various attributes of a good (or bad) girlfriend. And wouldn’t you...
Laowai: He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not
It’s a perennial subject in China’s online world, and once again a local female blogger has raised a divisive question – to date foreigners or not?...